'Nobel Peace Prize-winner Barack Obama ups spending on nuclear weapons to even more than George Bush'

By Carol Driver
Last updated at 2:17 PM on 29th January 2010


Barack Obama has allocated £4.3billion to spend on maintaining the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile - £370million more than what was budgeted by George Bush.

The budget will also be increased by more than £3.1billion over the next five years.

The announcement comes despite the American President declaring nuclear weapons were the ‘greatest danger’ to U.S. people during in his State of the Union address on Wednesday.

And it flies in the face of Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, awarded to him in October for ‘his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples’.

The Nobel committee was attacked at the time for bestowing the accolade on a new president whose initiatives are yet to bear fruit – which included reducing the world stock of nuclear arms.

The budget is higher than that allocated by George Bush – who was seen by many as a warmongering president in the wake of the Iraq invasion in 2003 – during his premiership.

During his 70-minute State of the Union speech on Wednesday, which marked his first year in office, Obama said: 'I have embraced the vision of John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan through a strategy that reverses the spread of these weapons, and seeks a world without them.'

However, Vice President Joe Biden today supported the increase on nuclear weapons maintenance, saying:‘Even in a time of tough budget decisions, these are investments we must make for our security.

‘We are committed to working with Congress to ensure these budget increases are approved.’

Biden said the Obama administration had inherited a ‘steady decline’ in support for U.S. nuclear stockpiles and infrastructure.

‘For almost a decade, our laboratories and facilities have been underfunded and undervalued,’ he said.

‘The consequences of this neglect - like the growing shortage of skilled nuclear scientists and engineers and the ageing of critical facilities - have largely escaped public notice.

‘The budget we will submit to Congress on Monday both reverses this decline and enables us to implement the president's nuclear-security agenda.’

He added: 'This investment is long overdue. It will strengthen our ability to recruit, train and retain the skilled people we need to maintain our nuclear capabilities.

'It will support the work of our nuclear labs, a national treasure that we must and will sustain.'

The Obama administration will publish its budget for fiscal year 2011 on Monday.

The proposal will include a budget increase for nuclear issues while paring back other areas in an effort to control record deficits.

Biden said those steps along with others to advance non-proliferation were essential to ‘holding nations like North Korea and Iran accountable when they break the rules, and deterring others from trying to do so’.    

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I'm not fan of the president but there is a reason the dailymail is known as the dailyfail....By maintenance, do they mean making sure the buildings the nukes are stored in don't fall down and cause catastrophic explosions? If so, I'd say spend all the necessary money...

Its no surprise no Republicans/conservatives have never been nominated or won the Nobel peace prize- their motto is " If you want peace- prepare for     war "-

Sombody, you're right...unless you count the following:

Henry Alfred Kissinger
Nicholas Murray Butler
Frank Billings Kellogg
Charles Gates Dawes
Woodrow Wilson
Elihu Root
Theodore Roosevelt (Received the prize in 1906, before joining the "Progressive Party")

By the way, this list only represents some REPUBLICAN politicians who have received the prize.  Not all Republicans, probably, and no Conservatives that have received the prize are on that list.  That doesn't include anyone who was just nominated, either.

Let me know if you need any help putting your foot in your mouth.

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Sombody, you're right...unless you count the following:

Henry Alfred Kissinger
Nicholas Murray Butler
Frank Billings Kellogg
Charles Gates Dawes
Woodrow Wilson
Elihu Root
Theodore Roosevelt (Received the prize in 1906, before joining the "Progressive Party")

By the way, this list only represents some REPUBLICAN politicians who have received the prize.  Not all Republicans, probably, and no Conservatives that have received the prize are on that list.  That doesn't include anyone who was just nominated, either.

Let me know if you need any help putting your foot in your mouth.

Thanks-
OK so - I was just checking-I confess obviously  I'm not really good at politics or history- but no one in the last fifty years or so ?

Somebody, apparently we can add the google to the things you're not very good at: Kissinger received his in 1973. Or maybe it's math you aren't good at...

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Its no surprise no Republicans/conservatives have never been nominated or won the Nobel peace prize- their motto is " If you want peace- prepare for     war "-

It's not just a Republican mantra......I bet you would kill for the last apple/water too......each party consists of certain parts of the human nature just with different names
attached to the characteristics....the problem is that maybe our society has lost it's soul.....we get the government we deserve because we are a form of I AM.....
and it doesn't matter which party is in.........

BTW,,,,I would kill you for the last apple too......

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Year After Obama Won Nobel, World Looks for Signs of Peace
Increased Fighting in Afghanistan, Stalled Negotiations in Middle East

By RUSSELL GOLDMAN
Oct. 8, 2010—

One year after the Nobel prize jury made its controversial decision to award President Obama the prize for world peace, a larger jury is still waiting for the president to live up to those lofty expectations.

Even some of Obama's allies -- like former Nobel laureates Al Gore and Jimmy Carter -- declined to assess his performance in fulfilling what the peace prize citation said was his "vision" of world harmony.

The one year anniversary of Obama's prize comes as fighting is escalating in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq continues to smolder and Obama struggles to keep fledgling Middle East peace talks from collapsing. Drones are firing missiles in unprecedened numbers and confrontations with Iran and North Korea are hotter than ever.

In addition, wars rage in Somalia, Africa, Asia and South America, fueled by religion, tribal hatreds, poverty and piracy.
.......................>>>>..................>>>>................http://abcnews.go.com/US/year-obama-wins-nobel-world-signs-peace/story?id=11825176

Obama should not even have been considered for the Nobel Peace Prize .. so early in his term of office.

He was literally in office less than a month when his name was submitted  -- they start the selection process
in February ... and announce the winner in the Autumn.

That means that he had not even unpacked his suitcase at the White House and someone was saying that
he deserved to be in the same company with  Theodore Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, Mother Theresa, Woodrow
Wilson,  Jimmy Carter, Jane Addams, and Martin Luther King   ???????

That he was even considered for the prize -- let alone awarded the prize -- with NO record of accomplishment
was a slap in the face to every other recipient of the award.